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The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.
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Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
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Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
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I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.
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